norm coleman sucks
Jul 18, 2007 @ 10:44
If you're a Minnesota resident like I am, I'd like you to know that Norm Coleman helped block the Senate from having a vote on a change of course in the Iraq war. He didn't vote against a change in course, he prevented the vote from even happening.
I even called him and asked him not to do that. Not that my one voice makes any difference, but I'm just saying.
Anyway, he pushed me to action, and I made my first '08 political donation. I suggest donating money to somebody running against Norm "teh suck" Coleman in 2008.
Maybe Al Franken?
oh no, there goes tokyo
Jul 16, 2007 @ 11:04
CNN: Radioactive leak, tremors follow Japan quake
The plant leaked ... water in a building housing one of its reactors, said Katsuya Uchino, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. official.
Uchino said the water contained ... radioactive material ... and is believed to have flushed into the Sea of Japan.
Well, I'm pretty sure we all know where THIS is going.
(Though, for international copyright reasons, while it will look exactly LIKE Godzilla, it won't BE Godzilla.)
more than meets expectations
Jul 12, 2007 @ 22:29
I saw Transformers, and let me just say, I wish I was younger so I could find Optimus Prime underpants that would fit me. Best. Movie. Of All Time.
with your bones, dear henry
Jul 7, 2007 @ 10:56
For the following real event that took place this morning, use the following key:
Zach
Dani
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.
So patch it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
So patch it dear Henry, dear Henry, patch it.
With what should I patch it, dear Liza, dear Liza,
With what should I patch it, dear Liza, with what?
With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with straw.
With what should I reap it, dear Liza, dear Liza,
With what should I reap it, dear Liza, with what?
With a sythe, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With a sythe, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a sythe.
But the sythe is too dull, dear Liza, dear Liza,
The sythe is too dull, dear Liza, too dull.
So, sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
So sharpen it dear Henry, dear Henry, sharpen it!
With what should I sharpen it, dear Liza, dear Liza,
With what should I sharpen, dear Liza, with what?
Use the stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Use the stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, the stone.
But the stone is too dry, dear Liza, dear Liza,
The stone is too dry, dear Liza, too dry.
So wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
So wet it dear Henry, dear Henry, wet it.
With what should I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza,
With what should I wet it, dear Liza, with what?
With blood, dear Henry, dear Hen--
What?! No. Not blood. Water.
Fine.
With water, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With water, dear Henry, dear Henry, water.
With what should I carry it, dear Liza, dear Liza,
With what should I carry it dear Liza, with what?
Use a skull dear Hen--
A what?
A skull.
...
No, the bucket.
I like mine better.
I'm dating Wednesday Addams, and I love it.
why wouldn't it be
Jun 17, 2007 @ 21:17
So there was this art fest thingamajig today down by the river today. Some of it was in fact in a van down by the river. No fooling.
The Stone Arch Festival of the Arts, I believe it was called. Named after the fancy stone bridge over the Mighty Miss connecting the park where the Fest was to the other bank, the Western Frontier, the Wild West. It's a pretty old and pretty sweet bridge, though it is not in fact that bridge that was the original gateway to the West of this country. That bridge doesn't stand anymore, but several have been rebuilt in its very location. The Hennepin Ave suspension bridge, with the rather dapper green lanterns, would be the current incarnation.
I feel like I should have a wagon.
Anyway, my point would be that yours truly and a certain waffler -- not John Kerry -- went and had a look around. The $2 beer garden turned out to be the $6 per bottle of beer garden, so instead the much needed refreshments for the toasty roasty 90+ degree weather were in the form of what I gather were tug boat hull squeezed hard lemonades and tug boat propeller stirred margaritas. Oh, and Mich Golden Light.
As for the art, somebody had a really sweet ceramic tile version of that one famous Japanese illustration of the wave. I almost got it for my bathroom. However, much more interesting was the Adam Turman booth. He not only designed the artwork for the Stone Arch Fest itself, but having met him in person via Jesse via Jody I have become something of a fan.
He had a spectacular selection of buttons of both the pin and magnet variety. The awfulwaffle got the full mustache series, and me being somewhat of a button aficionado, I got myself a complete button series of his local scenes prints plus some pirates, hotdish (that's caserole for you WI folks), animal fights, and buxom babes.
The wafflenator also picked up an ever-so-amazing apron, and speaking of Western Wagons, to my buttons I added a band poster for a really great local act, Thunder in the Valley.
It's funny because I was flipping through the books of posters, and when I had almost settled on death and destruction, the amber waves of grain caught my attention. What am I saying? The fricken hot air balloon is on fire in the one I bought. I still settled on death and destruction.
I had my poster choice picked out, and Adam was rolling up an untouched copy of the poster for me when I happened to look down and notice the edition number on the example print in the book. 74/75. It was the 74th print out of 75 in the edition. Not only was I [not] surprised that I had picked the poster I did now, but I actually convinced Adam to give me the "floor model" so I could take that edition home with me.
And I did. The End.
